My dear Gerald, women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are! They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything like it, and never can be.
To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal.
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.
Girls are incomparably wilder and more effervescent than boys, more untamable and regardless of rule and limit, with an ever-shifting variety, breaking continually into new modes of fun, yet with a harmonious propriety through all.
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women.
For women live much more in the past than we do, he thought. They attach themselves to places; and their fathers—a woman’s always proud of her father.
Woman has the been the antithesis in the dialect of creation quite long enough.
To be a good woman and a prude to all the world, and a courtesan to her husband, is the gift of a woman of genius, and they are few.
My women suffer because most of the women I talk to seem to have suffered.